- Mar 16, 2017
- 18
- 0
- 510
Well my father wants a new PC that he's going to hook up to a HDTV and use for some gaming purposes and I've been tasked with putting it together. Unfortunately work has been a bit of a mess lately and I haven't had as much time as I'd like to do component research.
My main challenge is that I'm looking for something more compact that usual. I'll probably end up using a Micro-ATX motherboard rather than the usual ATX, but I'm looking for a case compact enough where it's not much larger than a typical game console, and more importantly one with a cooling setup that would allow it to lie horizontal so there is room for it on the cabinet underneath the wall-mounted TV.
He says he isn't concerned about it running 4K and says he doesn't want genuine top-of-the-line performance but naturally it's still got to look good enough on a large screen. He might be playing some Battlefield 1 and Destiny 2 on it so it's got to be capable of running those well. I tend to lean towards Intel and Nvidia CPU/GPUs but that doesn't really matter, I've used plenty of AMD stuff in the past.
Price range? Well trying to get an answer out of him is a challenge. He doesn't want to order everything at once so I'll figure I'll be ordering the motherboard CPU and memory first and then move on from there.
I can probably sort out the GPU, CPU, memory and storage myself, my main concern is jamming everything in a smaller box than usual and keeping it cool. So any advice or build ideas?
Thanks for any input.
My main challenge is that I'm looking for something more compact that usual. I'll probably end up using a Micro-ATX motherboard rather than the usual ATX, but I'm looking for a case compact enough where it's not much larger than a typical game console, and more importantly one with a cooling setup that would allow it to lie horizontal so there is room for it on the cabinet underneath the wall-mounted TV.
He says he isn't concerned about it running 4K and says he doesn't want genuine top-of-the-line performance but naturally it's still got to look good enough on a large screen. He might be playing some Battlefield 1 and Destiny 2 on it so it's got to be capable of running those well. I tend to lean towards Intel and Nvidia CPU/GPUs but that doesn't really matter, I've used plenty of AMD stuff in the past.
Price range? Well trying to get an answer out of him is a challenge. He doesn't want to order everything at once so I'll figure I'll be ordering the motherboard CPU and memory first and then move on from there.
I can probably sort out the GPU, CPU, memory and storage myself, my main concern is jamming everything in a smaller box than usual and keeping it cool. So any advice or build ideas?
Thanks for any input.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram